Especially since he didn't start writing until book 12, and didn't start 'from scratch' so to speak until the last two books.

I haven't read any of your posts but the on above. Can't say your œuvre is one I've ever approached.

I'm sorry your favourite TV show got criticized and made you feel like you had to lash out at a children's cartoon to make yourself feel better.

Porkies 3?

Who airs Supertrain? And why doesn't Supertrain get more respect?

Do you think that kid knows that the 'some have greatest thrust upon them' is a penis joke?

The leftover RahXephon music really sells this one.

Except winning battles got him nowhere - he was easily murdered by the same untrustworthy allies Catlyn pushed so hard for him to please. The book itself points out several times the winning battles is really ancilliary to actually ruling.

I didn't speak its praises.

"and acts as capable advisor, negotiator and ambassador to her son."

Wheel of Time has some of my favourite moments in all of literature, and moments that make me want to throw the books into a fire. Sometimes they are the same book. I have never managed to get through book ten which, I am reliably informed, is probably the worst of the series.

In the spirit of the book, we should both die at the other's hand by accident, minutes away from achieving our life-long dreams and, I dunno, causing the brutal deaths of four innocent sex workers for unreleased reasons.

GoT, much like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, to me bears all the hallmarks of a writer unable to escape their own head. Whatever the series was meant to mean is soon lost between endless digressions and wanderings far away from anything resembling a point. A Game of Thrones is a tightly constructed novel about hubris…

GoT fools you at the start into thinking some characters are smart, but you realize by the end that they had simply been surrounded by people who were even dumber - and once those people were gone their own inadequacies become painfully clear,

I think it is going. They're switching to kinja I believe.

I see it a little differently: namely, that was the point he realized that constantly killing his characters was also killing narrative potential and he tried to auto-correct.

That's not really an idea, it's practically text.

She was also, in a series comprised almost exclusively of idiots, a character who consistently and unerringly made the worst possible decision at every opportunity.

Yet more proof that a book series can be well-written without actually being good.

More like… damn it, I had something for this.